Last night, in May for Pete’s sake, we had more frozen stuff fall from the sky. I thought it was sleet but my full-of-information friend Karin explained these snow pellets are called graupel. It’s from the German for pearl barley.
I think the weather gods knew of my plans to head to lower elevations tomorrow and wanted to treat me before I left to a form of precipitation I had never experienced before. Um, thanks?
Meanwhile, friends in Truckee thought they had seen the last of winter and removed their snow tires. Then it snowed a foot. Note to self: Even with the promise of spring (maybe summer) skiing, stay out of the Sierras for a while.
A guy I worked for in Minnesota doesn't plow the drive & parking lot after Mother's Day...but that's next Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI learned about grapple a few years ago in my yard in WA state - there was a lovely accumulation on my back steps - had to do an online search to find out what it was
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